Method for producing a substance adapted to tampon wounds

ABSTRACT

229,644. Vogel, R. Feb. 19, 1924, [Convention date]. Medicaments for external application. - A dressing for wounds, which is applied in a liquid or plastic state but which stiffens or coagulates after application and is ultimately absorbed by the body, consists of blood, preferably freed from red corpuscles, to which sodium citrate or like salt has been added in such quantity as just to prevent coagulation. Immediately before use a salt such as chloride of calcium is added to induce coagulation. Disinfectants, such as chinosol or eucupin (ethyl-hydro-cuprein), may also be added. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a) states also that pure blood plasma may be used in place of blood. This subjectmatter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.

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' No m'awlng. I Application tiled February 13, 1925. Serial No. 9,050, and in Germany February 19; 1924.

The tampons used heretofore for wounds caused by accident or'by surgical incisions,

consisted of fabrics ,(gauze, charpie or the like), by which the wounds were plugged t up. They had the drawback of having to be renewed very often until the healing was completed. Not, only did great care have to be observed on every repetition of the plugging of the wound, with regard to ster- W ilization, but this method was also very tedious, took along time, and-was very disagreeable to the patient. Moveover, the tam ons, healing process, were the causeot retarding the final closing of the wound owlng to the fact that the wound was mechanically operated upon during their renewal. i p D Theob'ject of the present invention is to reduce a sub ance that can be introduced into the wound in a plastic state whereit stifi'ens or coa lates and is absorbed by the body. There y all the drawbacks men- 1 tioned above as inherent with-the known tam one are eliminated and under certain con itions, moreover, the advantage is gained that the edges of the wounds, without needin t be sewn, can be held together solely by t e a esive power of the tampon. 0 The invention is based on the discovery that the plasma contained in the blood when prepared in an appropriate way furnishes a tampon substance which fully answers the pm as. The method is carried out by addw ing to blood freshly drawn v from man or beast, certain salts, such as sodium-citrate. which delay or prevent the coagulation of the blood in a known manner and to such an extent that the'tendency of the blood to oo- 4 agulate, and the influences which prevent such coa lation, justbalance one another, so that t equilibrium, which state can be disturbed so quickly by deliberately occasioned influ- 45. ences, that a coagulation or stifiening results. Preferably, moreover, the red corpuscles are. separated from the blood .10

centrifu :11 action, in order to enable blee ing of t e wound to be distinguished therefrom bythe difierence of color of the tam ,ponsubstance filled into the wound. Furthermore, the liquid congtituentsof the serum may also be separated sothat the plasma remains more or lesspure. Of course,

carrying out themethod, care must be as necessary as they were for the. had the drawback that they The packing can where implements or ent in clinics blood is in a state of unstable taken'that the material be kept perfectly sterile.

Blood prepared in this manner can be used directly for tamponage, unstable equilibrium prevailing therein be disturbed shortly before use by the addition of some other salts, as for instapce, a few drops. of a solution of this is done, the blood sets or coagulates shortly after entering the wound and will later be absorbed by it, without having any disturbing eflect on the* speedy healing process.

Though blood of common animals, owing to its foreign nature, must be considered of less value with regard to its absorbing propcalcium chloride. It

it the state of 4' erty in human wounds, than blood of mankind, yet for evident reasons only blood of animals will cofne into question for the industrial production ofthe tampon substance. be carried out either in ampullee or other vessels that can be closed and which are preferably coated withinwith a film of parafline. It is of advantage to add to the peeking at the same time a receptacle for the calcium chloridewhich' to be mixed with the substance just. before the tamponing is to be edected, and also two small d'hes orwrapped in a sterile covering, so that all that is necessary for the tamponing is given to the physician for treating the wound at the very place of the accident or other places are not at hand. Even non professionals can care for themselves if the wounds are not very great.

bowls, all of which are i remediesusually preslhe substance may also'be used for sirnply plastering or bandaging wounds. Of course disinfecting substandes may be added if found convenient.

'As germ preventing or germicidal substances particularly eucupmum blhydro- .chloricum, vuzin and other substances-oif the same roup of uinine derivatives, mentioned in ehes Co ex III, Ed. 1920, pages 184 and 656, have proved to be very advantageous,.since in the necessary c'onc'e tration they neither injure the cells o the wound nor do they hinder the process of coagulation. p

I claim:

1. A method for tamponing wounds, comprising mixing blood with a non-poisonous material which delays its coagulation to such an extentthat the blood is approximately in a state of unstable equilibrium with regard to its coagulating quality, adding a material to cause the blood to rapidly coagulate, and prior to its coagulation applying the blood to a wound.

2. A method for tamponing wounds, comprising mixin blood with sodium citrate which delays its coagulation tosuch an extent\ that the blood is approximately in 'a state of unstable equilibrium with regard to its coa ating quality, adding a material tocause t e blood to rapidly coagulate, and prior to its coagulation applying the blood to a wound.

35A method for producing a substance b for tamponin'g wounds,comprising mixing blood freed from red corpuscles with a non oisonous material which delays its coa ation to such an extent that the bloo is a proximately in a state of unstable equili rim with regard to its coagulating quality and then packing the substance in a sterile vessel.-

4. A method for producing a substance for tamponing wounds comprising mixing blood free from red corpuscles with a nonoisonous material which delays its c0aguation to such an extent that the blood is a proximately in a state of unstable equilibrium with regard to its coagulating qualityand then packing the substance in ampullaecoated 0n the inside with arafiine.

5. In a method accordin to claim 1, inclluding adding a quinine erivative to the cod.

6. In a method according to claim 1, including adding eucupinum bihydrochloricum to the blood.

ROBERT VOGEL. 

